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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: Help wanted identifying keyboard layout
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.212538.28125@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <1993Jan5.233616.11969@trl.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:25:38 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.233616.11969@trl.oz.au> jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy) writes:
- >Would anyone know of a way to "interrogate" the keyboard
- >as it were, so that for each key, it returns the
- >corresponding ASCII (not scan code)? And of finding
- >out the layout of the keys, which, to my ignorant
- >eyes, come in bewildering varieties, especially when
- >you try to allow for laptops and book-sized PCs?
-
- You might find the SCANCODE.EXE utility in garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/
- tsbase11.zip of some use in testing the keybord even if it does not
- come with source code. It has four modes, one giving the ascii
- values.
-
- All the best, Timo
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